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Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 27.1 (2002) 159-163



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AIDS

AIDS, Sexuality, and Gender in Africa: Collective Strategies and Struggles in Tanzania and Zambia. Carolyn Baylies and Janet Bujra. New York: Routledge, 2000. 240 pp. $85.00 cloth; $25.95 paper.

Evaluating HIV/AIDS Treatment Programs: Innovative Methods and Findings. G. J. Huba, ed. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2000. 290 pp. $49.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Partnership and Pragmatism: Germany's Response to AIDS Prevention and Care. Rolf Rosenbrock and Michael T. Wright, eds. New York: Routledge, 2000. 270 pp. $85.00 cloth.

Comparative Studies of Health Care Delivery, Law, Politics, and Policy

Birth by Design: Pregnancy, Maternity Care, and Midwifery in North America and Europe. Raymond Devries et al., eds. New York: Routledge, 2001. 319 pp. $80.00 cloth; $24.95 paper.

The International Health Policy Program: An Internal Assessment. Ralph Andreano. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. 106 pp. $14.95 paper.

Nordic Welfare States in the European Context. Mikko Kautto et al., eds. New York: Routledge, 2001. 325 pp. $85.00 cloth; $27.95 paper.

Readings in Comparative Health Law and Bioethics. Timothy Stoltzfus Jost. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2001. 416 pp. $40.00 paper.

Economics and Finance

Medical Care Output and Productivity. David M. Cutler and Ernst R. Berndt, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 623 pp. $80.00 cloth.

Health Care Delivery

Building Healthy Communities through Medical-Religious Partnerships. W. Daniel Hale and Richard G. Bennett. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 170 pp. $15.95 paper.

Children and Interparental Violence: The Impact of Exposure. B. B. Robbie Rossman, Honore M. Hughes, and Mindy S. Rosenberg. Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis, 2000. 183 pp. $34.95 cloth.

Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health: Does Sex Matter? Theresa M. Wizemann and Mary-Lou Pardue, eds. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001. 221 pp. $44.95 cloth.

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Curriculum for the Twenty-first Century. Catherine D. De Angelis, ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 260 pp. $55.00 cloth; $21.50 paper.

Medical Challenges for the New Millennium: An Interdisciplinary Task. Stefan N. Willich and Susanna Elm, eds. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 2001. 157 pp. $65.00 cloth.

Risk Stratification: A Practical Guide for Clinicians. Charles C. Miller III, Michael J. Reardon, and Hazim J. Safi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 188 pp. $37.95 paper.

Too Ill to Talk?: User Involvement and Palliative Care. Neil Small and Penny Rhodes. New York: Routledge, 2000. 263 pp. $25.95 paper; $85.00 cloth.

History and Humanities

Bodies of Evidence: Medicine and the Politics of the English Inquest, 1830-1926. Ian A. Burney. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 255 pp. $39.95 cloth.

The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America. Barron H. Lerner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 399 pp. $30.00 cloth.

Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940. Emily K. Abel. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. 335 pp. $49.95 cloth.

The Hermeneutics of Medicine and the Phenomenology of Health: Steps Towards a Philosophy of Medical Practice. Fredrik Svenaeus. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 2000. 212 pp. $74.00 cloth.

Imperial Medicine: Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease. Douglas M. Haynes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. 229 pp. $37.50 cloth.

Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine. Susan Wells. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. 324 pp. $57.95 cloth; $22.95 paper.

Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine. John V. Pickstone. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 283 pp. $55.00 cloth; $20.00 paper.

Law and Biomedical Ethics

Developing Organization Ethics in Healthcare: A Case-Based Approach to Policy, Practice, and Compliance. Ann E. Mills, Edward M. Spencer, and Patricia H. Werhane, eds. Hagerstown, MD: University Publishing Group, 2001. 222 pp. $24.00 paper.

The Health Care Professional as Friend and Healer: Building on the Work of Edmund D. Pellegrino. David C. Thomasma and Judith...

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